Halloween!

Autumn and I discussed Halloween and our theme for dressing up for MONTHS.  Every time I'd come up with an idea I'd run it by Evan.  He would look at me and say, "Ok dear".  Because he knew I'd change my mind.  Anyhow I finally settled on the perfect theme: Sophia the First and her family from the Disney Channel.  And you must be wondering why it was so perfect...well, Sophia has a brother and a sister that are twins!!!

Autumn and Lark as Sofia and Clover

Autumn did not like the tiarra I purchased for her because it did not have purple gems.  I challenged Autumn and looked up an image of Sofia.  Autumn was right.  So Autumn insisted on wearing a purple crown from a board game we own.

 That afternoon while trying to get everyone ready for the ward trunk-or-treat Maverick pulled the cornbread I had make for the party off the counter.  If you are wondering what it looks like when you eat corn bread with a snotty nose....look no further.

And since the food was all over the floor...I brought 3 bags of Goldfish to share.

 Twinners!! Violet and Maverick as  Amber and James

 The royal family.  (My mom made Violet's awesome dress, I purchased Autumn and Larks, and pieced together the rest)

 Trunk-or-treating with our neighbor Kaydee and Emma

 A couple days before actual Halloween Autumn and I carved a pumpkin.  Last year Autumn picked out a pumpkin and we didn't get around to carving it since we were in the middle of a move.  Autumn drew a picture of what she wanted the face to look like.  Then I cut the pumpkin open and told Autumn to gut it out.  She kinda touched it and said, "you can do it mom".  So I basically did the whole thing, but Autumn kept me company and it was warm out so we had a good time. 

She really wanted the pumpkin to have question mark eyes.  I'm not sure where she got that idea, but I thought it was clever.

Lark 1/2

We had an unusually warm autumn...swinging at the park with friends.

My friend's kid standing on Lark at a different park

Lark joined us on a date to the local high schools' rivalry game

Autumn LOVEs playing with Lark

For a week or so Autumn was insisting that she teach Lark at "school" (she is "reading" the phone book to her).

Lark is so much bigger than the other kids were at her age...as a comparison these pictures are all the girls wearing the same jammies...Violet almost 8 months and Standing, Lark sitting 5.5 months and Autumn standing at almost 8 months

                                                                                                                      

Lark has lots of people who like to "play" with her

Sitting with the big kids at dinner.

Lark's 6 month stats (11/3 6/5 months)

weight: 17 lbs 15 oz (75 %)

Length: 27.5 in (90 %)

Head Circumference: 42.4 cm (45 %)

Home Ownership

I woke up one morning and headed to the twin's room and my socks got wet.  I thought one of them peed but as I did some surveying...water had seeped into their room from the laundry/utility room.

Water was all the way down the hall and got the carpet wet in the twin's room.

Evan and I pulled some of the boxes out of the laundry room, but alas he had to go to work.  My dear friend and her husband came over with a mop and a bucket.

While we were trying to figure things out and clean up the mess...Violet and Maverick spilled an almost full container of Tide on the floor...

Violet did not like the taste of it.  SO I stuck the kids in the tub while I took care of some other things...and they flushed almost all the bath toys down the toilet...making the toilet unusable. Then after the bath while I was visiting teaching they colored all over the hardwood floor.  I'm pretty sure the weather getting a bit cooler has taken a toll on these two.  There mischief has been much harder to manage. 

Earlier in the week they put an entire package of T.P. in the water ruining 12 rolls of T.P (that was an expensive bath).  SO if my kids stink, it is because I don't allow them to bathe as often anymore.

These two kiddos sure are adorable, but they keep me on my toes for sure.  I don't tell Evan half of the stuff that goes on during the day because I don't want him to think I'm an unfit mother.  They are just really hard to keep track of.  The biggest messes occur while I'm trying to put Lark down for a nap or while I'm feeding her.

SEE they are cute!  They put their baby dolls down for a nap on Lark's play mat.

Violet got into my make-up twice the week of the flood/toilet debacle.

Maverick and Violet also pour a few bottles of spices all over dinner that week too...I just scraped it out and served it up anyway.  And Evan even complimented me on how good it tasted.

Evan and I spent a few hours trying to retrieve the bath toys from the toilet.  But after the kids woke up from their naps we had to take a break.  I took all the big kids to the park while Evan and his mom went back at it...Finally rescuing several princesses and their princes. (The above picture is Violet and I walking home from the park and we stopped to visit one of the Cheyenne "boots")

Ta-DA

Pumpkin Patch

One of my very favorite fall things is visiting the pumpkin patch.  We went with our Cheyenne Mother's of Multiples group plus Evan's parents.  And the weather was perfect!

Hey ride with all the twinners and their families.

Autumn made a good buddy with this twinner!